73 m. ago Senate Democrat meets Ábrego García in El Salvador as legal battles continue – US politics live

Visit by Maryland’s Chris Van Hollen comes as a federal appeals court rules against the Trump’s administration’s efforts to block return to the USThe Democratic senator from New Jersey, Cory Booker, plans to travel to El Salvador, a source familiar with his itinerary said, as Democrats seek to pressure the Trump administration to return Kilmar Ábrego García, the wrongly deported Maryland resident.Booker’s trip to the Central American country would come after the Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen traveled there this week to meet with his constituent.The Supreme Court was clear: the Trump administration must act to facilitate the return of Kilmar Ábrego García to the United States. There is no room for debate – yet Trump is refusing, in defiance of a lawful court order.Every member of Congress should be standing up for the Constitution and demanding that the administration act to return Mr. Ábrego García to the U.S. and to his family.” Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Democratic senator meets with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador

Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele says wrongfully deported Maryland dad has the ‘honor of staying in El Salvador’s custody’

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11 h. ago Maryland senator meets Kilmar Ábrego García in El Salvador amid battle over US return

Chris Van Hollen posts photo on X but does not provide update on status of man wrongly deported from USThe Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen met in El Salvador with Kilmar Ábrego García, a man who was sent there by the Trump administration in March despite an immigration court order preventing his deportation.Van Hollen posted a photo of the meeting on X, saying he also called Ábrego García’s wife “to pass along his message of love”. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Donald Trump blasted in blistering court order about wrongly deported Kilmar Ábrego García

Kilmar Ábrego García is currently in an El Salvador mega prison, notorious for housing gang members, but the US government had admitted his deportation was as a result of an "administrative error"

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18 h. ago Court denies Trump administration’s appeal against order to ‘facilitate’ return of wrongly deported US man – live

Fourth circuit court rejects appeal saying it ‘shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge’ who is interpreting supreme court decisionDonald Trump’s administration will ask a US federal appeals court on Thursday to pause a judge’s ruling lifting access restrictions the White House imposed on the Associated Press (AP) for referring to the Gulf of Mexico in its coverage.The Trump administration has argued that the lower-court ruling, which mandates AP journalists be granted access to press events in the White House, infringes on the president’s ability to decide whom to admit to sensitive spaces. The White House has asked to put the ruling on hold while it appeals. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Trump’s gilded Oval Office was the perfect setting for his and Bukele’s grotesque spectacle | Julia Carrie Wong

The president’s penchant for the gaudy has been mocked but the menace beneath was clear when he met El Salvador’s leaderThe Oval Office meeting of Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele on Monday was a grotesque spectacle. Both men, elected to lead nominally democratic countries, have described themselves as dictators, and they exuded that sense of smug impunity. While reporters sought answers on the fate of Kilmar Ábrego García, a 29-year-old father of three who was wrongly deported to El Salvador’s notorious Cecot mega-prison, Trump and Bukele disclaimed responsibility, joked about further deportations, and engaged in casual slander of Ábrego García, who is not, and has never been alleged to be, a terrorist.And then there was the gold. So much gold. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Norwegian police explain why they wrongly deported a British tourist – but stop short of apologising

Exclusive: Police stop short of apologising to British visitor who was held in custody for three hours and marched by officers on to a flight sending her back to Edinburgh

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22 h. ago Cory Booker to visit El Salvador in effort to return wrongly deported man to US

Democrats press Trump administration to follow supreme court order to bring back Kilmar Ábrego GarcíaWho is Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador?Cory Booker plans to travel to El Salvador, a source familiar with the New Jersey senator’s itinerary said, as Democrats seek to pressure the Trump administration to return a wrongly deported Maryland resident.Booker’s trip to the Central American country would come after the Maryland senator Chris Van Hollen traveled there this week to meet with his constituent Kilmar Ábrego García, a Salvadorian national deported last month in what the Trump administration acknowledged was an “administrative error”. Despite a supreme court ruling saying his administration must “facilitate” Ábrego García’s return, Trump has refused to take steps to do so, and El Salvador’s government on Wednesday denied Van Hollen a meeting with the deportee. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago Kilmar Ábrego García’s wife rejects Trump officials’ depictions of him as ‘violent’

Jennifer Vasquez Sura criticizes DHS’s attempt to smear her wrongly deported husband over 2021 civil protective orderWho is Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador?The wife of Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man unlawfully deported to a mega-prison in El Salvador, has strongly criticized the Trump administration’s attempt to smear his character, saying a temporary restraining order against him was “out of caution” and that “he is a loving partner and father” who is being denied justice.Jennifer Vasquez Sura said she “acted out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar” when she got the civil protective order in 2021, according to a statement emailed to the Baltimore Sun. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Did Democratic senator who tried to help man wrongly deported to El Salvador violate the Logan Act?

Maryland Democrat accused of violating 18th century legislation by visiting Central American nation to lobby for release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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26 h. ago White House says wrongly deported father ‘will never live in the United States of America again’

The White House has said a wrongly deported father “will never live in the United States of America again”.

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28 h. ago Trump live: White House doubles down on man who was wrongly deported to El Salvador ‘never returning’ to US

The Trump administration has also hit out at a Democratic senator trying to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the U.S

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29 h. ago Trump latest: White House says man wrongly deported to El Salvador will never return to US

Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador to try and help free Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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41 h. ago El Salvador refuses to let Democratic senator visit or speak with Kilmar Abrego Garcia: ‘We have an unjust situation here’

Chris Van Hollen was denied a meeting with the wrongfully deported Salvadoran man imprisoned inside a notorious jail

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42 h. ago US senator says El Salvador denied request to meet Kilmar Ábrego García

Chris Van Hollen condemns ‘unjust situation’ and says vice-president blocked access to wrongly deported manWho is Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador?Maryland’s Democratic senator Chris Van Hollen says the government of El Salvador has denied his request to visit Kilmar Ábrego García, his constituent who was wrongly deported to the Central American country last month.Van Hollen traveled to El Salvador on Wednesday with the intention of meeting Ábrego García at the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot), where US authorities have said that the Maryland resident is being held along with others deported at Donald Trump’s orders. Continue reading...

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62 h. ago Judge rebukes Trump officials for not securing return of wrongly deported man

Administration will have to share under oath how it’s trying to get Kilmar Ábrego García back to US, says district judgeA federal judge sharply rebuked the Trump administration and scolded officials on Tuesday for taking no steps to secure the return of a man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, as the US supreme court had ordered in a contentious ruling last week.The US district judge Paula Xinis said that Donald Trump’s news conference with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, where the leaders joked that Kilmar Ábrego García would not be released, did not count as compliance. Continue reading...

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64 h. ago Trump officials must testify after doing ‘nothing’ to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, judge rules

Lawyers for wrongfully deported Maryland father can depose officials over compliance with Supreme Court ruling to ‘facilitate’ his return to the United States

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3 d. ago British woman was ‘scared, sad and bewildered’ after being wrongly deported from Norway

Exclusive: Three officers were deployed to place the passenger on her deportation flight

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3 d. ago Donald Trump will NOT return Kilmar Ábrego García who was wrongly deported to gang prison

Kilmar Ábrego García was wrongly deported to El Salvador, where he is currently housed at a notorious gang prison, but pressure grows on Donald Trump to "facilitate" the man's return

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3 d. ago The Latest: Both the US and El Salvador refuse to return wrongly deported man to the US

President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month

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